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The stone pillars stand like a loyal guard standing straight with a spear in his hand.

They moved along the road paved with broken rocks. They left, entered, and left shadows that seemed to be walking through a spell tunnel. The light flickered and darkened, stimulating their eyes, causing them to have wrong senses, unable to distinguish directions, and inaccurate distances.

A gust of wind blew, rolling up countless slight sand and stones. Li Ou pulled off his face towel. At the same time, he felt the long-lost cool breeze. He took a deep breath and raised his head, he saw a huge black shadow behind a tall stone pillar as big as an arrow tower.

Pompedekar, Stone City. The ruins of an ancient kingdom.

Through the forest of guns and stones, the alchemist saw a ruined wall. The former prosperity has now turned into yellow sand, leaving only gravel and rubble, collapsed houses and palaces. The exterior wall is only ten feet high, and there are only fences to resist the sand bandits in most places. Several arrow towers broke from it, and the archers stepped on the shaking wooden boards, trembling.

"We're here," said Rava Joray.

Several caravans stopped outside the walls and lined up for the guards to check in. They all looked at the alchemists with curious eyes.

"White Devil." Many people exclaimed in a low voice.

One person asked, "How could they be here?"

"Look at their baggage." The other man looked sharp-eyed, "That's armor! What are they here for?"

"Hey, have you seen the badge on the armor?" another person asked.

"I heard that the white devils are all unbelievers..."

"That's not to say... they might be here..."

They all stopped their mouths suddenly.

Leo showed some panic on their faces, and he was panicked to avoid them. The crowded crowd was confused and abused, but it just made way for the alchemist. As a latecomer, he was in the forefront.

The low sand and stone walls peeled off fragments, and only half of the rusty iron gate left behind the collapsed city gate. Things change and people change. The alchemist couldn't help but sigh at the terrible magic of time. Six guards stood in front of the door and stopped them.

"Stop, the foreigner...or, the white devil..." a guard who was wearing a burqa and holding a short axe said in fear, "Accept the inspection."

"We've been checked," said Rava Joray. "The golden scimitar has just been checked."

Another guard spat on the sand. His face was covered with sweat and dust. He wiped his face, "They are them, we are us." He pounded the ground with the hard alder handle of the slightest elasticity in his hand. "Now, get checked."

"What are you going to check?" said Leo, "We only have so many people..."

The guard holding a short axe was extremely surprised, "...you can speak Valian..."

The alchemist ignored his surprise and continued, "We are refugees too. Look, most of them are injured, and there are many ladies with no power."

"Since you already know, the white devil." The guard looked up at Li Ou, "Then just go through the examination honestly."

A tedious and extremely meticulous inspection. The guards flipped through every package and looked for every gap. But the guards did not mess up the things like a golden scimitar and threw them around. They took them out carefully, and after the inspection was completed, they were neatly placed and restored to their original state. This undoubtedly won their favor.

"What are they looking for?" Lu Yuewu asked.

"It looks like a beggar who is checking the garbage dump." Rosie hummed disdainfully.

Li Ou felt that they were a little bit too cautious and were too cautious. He didn't understand why this happened.

"It feels like war is coming." Miss Bachelor found the right metaphor, "It seems like martial law."

Sasha Joray's whisper beside him revealed the answer. "This is the city of Mother of the Desert."

No wonder... Leo looked at the girls and stopped talking.

The guards carefully checked the emblem on the armor. "What is this?" the guards holding the axe asked, "Where are you from? I have never seen this herald before. Are you nobles?"

"Knight--" Li Ou said in a vague way.

"Knight? Are there knights as embarrassed as you?"

"We come from Aiyin Bloo."

"Aiyinbulo?" The guard looked confused.

"Anyway, it's all witchcraft and magic," said another guard.

At this time, a guard opened a water bag hanging on the saddle. Knight Tario thought it was full of water, but he refused to give them a little bit of one of the cowhide water bags.

"What's going on?" He widened his eyes, in disbelief. "How could there be blood inside?"

Li Ou turned his head and stared at the businessman, "Mr. Qiao Lei?"

"I...I..." Rava Joray hesitated.

"Is this yours, businessman?"

Lava Joray forced out an ugly smile helplessly, "Yes, yes. I came for the sacrifice. These are the tributes I offered."

Taking blood as a tribute? It looks like an evil god no matter how you look at it - if the fat woman with abscess on her face could also be called a god. Leo suddenly felt a strong sense of uneasiness. He looked at the low and broken city walls and a thin shadow under the sun. The city was like a pile of wriggling black mud, with disgusting tentacles swaying constantly, swallowing all the prey that entered it endlessly. He couldn't help but shivering.

"Li Ou?" Lu Yuewu discovered his abnormality.

"It's okay." He felt a bitter taste in his mouth. They had to go into the city, or they would die of thirst and starve. "I'm fine." He threw all his worries out of his head.

Lu Yuewu's frown showed some dissatisfaction and complaints. Li Ou thought she must have had enough of his concealment.

"You can enter the city. But pay attention to your behavior. The White Devil and the Golden Scimitars are not vegetarians. Be careful that disaster comes from their mouths. The best performance is exactly the same as ordinary people. Also, gerbils, come here!" A ragged guard ran over. "Take them and take them to find a place to stay. Remember, the White Devil, don't cause anything. Otherwise..." The guard made a move to cut his throat. "No one can save you. The Mother of the Desert stared at her palace."

Behind the short and broken city wall is a yellow and gray sand brick hut. The square houses seem to be squares on chessboards, crowded together. A camel was tied to a stone stake in front of the door. Several children were playing around the camel. They picked up the sand and poured it on the other person's head, raising a large area of ​​sand and dust.

"I hate it more here than the ocean." Rosie was choked. She complained under her mask, "Sand, sand, it's sand!"

The huge bronze statue on the square is far away, reflecting the dazzling sunshine. It looks bright and new.

"There is no copper mine here." The bachelor's lady reminded. You can imagine how much money she spent.

The bronze statue is obviously the image of the Mother of the Desert. The believers who kneeled in front of the bronze statue and worshiped him were all ragged and pale-faced and thin-skinned poor people. Along the way, Li Ou seemed to have not seen any noble or merchant.

"It's really disappointing." Rosie raised her hand to block the sun, stopped and looked up. "I thought it was a rotten corpse covered with maggots."

The Mother of the Desert is neither a corpse nor an old woman, but a young girl. "Since she is called 'mother', I really want to know how she got pregnant, and I also want to see her with a big belly." Li Ou muttered softly, "I don't know if she is pregnant with a scorpion or a bunch of disgusting white maggots."

"Li Ou!" Lu Yuewu and the bachelor's lady shouted at the same time in dissatisfaction.

The alchemist shrugged at them with a smile. "Mr. Lava Joray, when will your blood be worshipped?" he asked in a good tone.

"No, not now." Rava Joray shook his head vigorously.

"When is that? The day when the sacrifice begins?"

"Yes, yes." Rava Jorey said dryly, "After a week, although... but I can't..." He hesitated and his eyes wandered. Li Ou understood. This city does not welcome pagans. If you want to do a good business, merchants will first learn to disguise. No wonder the guys outside the city gate looked like they were afraid to avoid it, as if they were plague. They were worried about causing fire. Does anyone know that the White Devil had long declared that he would no longer believe in any gods?

"So, don't you sleep with them for several days?" Rosie said coldly, "I don't think they are human blood."

"How can you say that to my father?" Sasha Joray shouted loudly. "Inside, it's just... just..."

"Just what... say?"

"Roxi," Leo called her.

Her relentless pursuit attracted attention. Don't forget that they were still at the foot of the bronze statue. They should be pious - false piety to keep quiet. He hypocritically worshipped the beautiful woman's statue. It was actually a monster. Then he asked everyone to follow and leave here. "Don't say this here." He told the female mage.

"White Devil, you'd better stop talking, especially on the street." The guard also reminded them. "There are sand everywhere and everywhere."

Li Ou became more and more aligned with Miss Bachelor’s opinion. This place was like a martial law fortress facing the city.

"Mr. Gerry, can I call you that?" said Leo, "Can you tell us anything worth noting?"

"I don't know what to say." The other party thought about it and replied. "The best advice I give you is to shut your mouth, keep your eyes in check, stop thinking, and treat yourself as a dead person." He paused and swallowed. The gerbil looked around. The street was filled with heat and few pedestrians. The guards kept their eyes on, kept their pace forward, and lowered their voices and said, "Otherwise, they will turn you into dead people."

"who are they?"

"Sons of Mother of the Desert."

After walking a while, on the other side of the square, far from the collapsed palace, the Gerry led them to a hotel. The iron plate hanging outside the door was engraved with the gerbil pattern. "This is the hotel run by my uncle." The Gerry said, "I came here because of my nickname. Come in." He greeted.

It was time for meals, and the hotel was full of people. Perhaps because the sacrifice was approaching, believers from all directions rushed over. Most of them had long journeys, looking tired, but the fanaticism in their eyes was clear. However, when they saw Leo and the others, the Valians chose to close their mouths. For a moment, there was only the buzzing sound of flies in the hotel.

"Uncle." The gerbil called the boss, "Give them a few rooms. It's better to separate them from others."

The hotel owner is a bald middle-aged man with a big protruding belly and a greasy scarlet apron around his waist. "How do you bring these white devils?" he said in a stigma. "Don't you know they will cause trouble?"

"I can understand Valian." Li Ou reminded the other party.

"Oh, oh, damn, why didn't you tell me earlier?" The boss patted the gerbils with a towel, and then squeezed out a smile at them. "Guests, please come in, please come in. I'll arrange a room for you now."

The room was also covered in dust, and they had to clean it up by themselves.

"I want to take a shower," said Rosie.

All the women nodded in empathy. But this was deep in the sea of ​​sand, and Leo had not forgotten what happened in the oasis. "I will tell my boss, but don't have much hope." He said.

"I don't think there is hope." Rosie pulled off her cloak and face towel and fell onto the hard stone bed. "Li Ou, I'm like a useless person now. I can't do anything, and I can't even make a little water."

"Of course not." Leo comforted her, "This is only temporary and will get better soon."

"How long will it take for the time being?" Rosie held up, her long hair tied into a ponytail hanging on one side, and her loose clothes showed a little spring light. "It's a bad feeling here. I'm worried about what will happen. Leo, give me the potion." She begged, "At least, I don't want to be a burden."

"Can't give it to her." Lu Yuewu pushed the door and entered. "Do you want to die?" She asked sternly.

"I……"

"Shut up your mouth since you don't want to die in vain." Lu Yuewu rarely loses her temper. "We will protect you."

Her words seemed to step on Rosie's tail. She jumped up and shouted, "I don't need your protection. I don't want to be protected by you. Do you know how painful it is when I was locked up? That kind of powerless feeling? I don't want to be like that anymore, I don't want to!"

Nezhel confessed what he had done. Leo knew what kind of treatment she was treated. But now is not the time for him to be soft-hearted.

"We need your mana to turn the tide, but not now." She looked at herself angrily. He told them, "This is a city of crazi people. Our best choice is to stay in the door."
Chapter completed!